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From the icon in menu bar you can always bring a finder window to
front to manage the contents of the mounted drive.

The colour of menu icon reports the current state:

- inactive - nothing to mount

- active - Volume available to re-mount

- working - Mounty is operating

- idle - Volume writable mounted

- error - mount failed

A bit of background

Occasionally I need to share files with my colleagues via USB sticks. Since we are working on different
platforms the sticks might be
NTFS-formatted. No problem so far, there are several resources out to the web describing to accomplish
this task, e.g.

However, tired of typing this over and over, I have written Mounty to accomplish exactly this - but in a
much more convenient fashion.
So, under the hood, it happens an unmount and a remount short after, followed by opening a Finder window
pointing to the hidden mount point.

Please let me know if this tool is also useful to you; and do not hesitate to ask a question
that might appear using Mounty.

Some questions that might come up

My USB stick will not re-mount. An alert is popping up telling me to re-attach the stick, but this
doesn't help.

This can happen when the USB stick is not cleanly unmounted from the Windows PC.
If you simply unplug the USB stick from PC without using the little tray icon to detach the hardware
correctly,
the volume will be marked as "not cleanly unmounted". There might be some dirty sectors left
and
Mac OS X will not be able to re-mount in read-write mode for that reason.

Suddenly all my files disappeared - please help!

This is usually happen when not all files are written properly due to an unmount operation not finishing.
The NTFS partition might be marked as "dirty" and the Apple NTFS driver cannot recover from that situation.
Mounty will not delete anything by itself, please try to restore your files on a Windows PC using usual recovery s/w,
i.e. chkdsk command line utility or professional tools like GetDataBack
for Windows. If you do not own any Windows you can use tools for macOS that can deal with NTFS partition maintenance,
like Paraogn Harddisk Manager or
Tuxera Disk Manager.

Sometimes the files are grayed out and cannot be modified anymore.

This is because the file has extended attributes, refer to
the
Manpage of xattr for further explanation.
If you open the file path in terminal application, you can list the attributes with ls -l@ <filename>,
and remove those attributes with xattr -d com-apple.<attribute> <filename>, i.e.:
xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo testfile.txt

Version History

Version 1.9 - 21th of Sep 2018

bug fix for crash when Volume does not contain UUID (e.g. MBR Disk)

Note: Old devices which does not contain UUID cannot be tracked for auto-mount

As far as I have tested, this version runs perfectly on Mac OS High Sierra.

Version 1.6 - 2th of June 2017

Localizations Updates:

Thanks to the community, bunch of corrections were made to improve the Google translations of
- Chinese (thanks to Gerald and Yang)
- Italian (thanks to Emanuelle and Helmo)
- French (thanks to Dominique)
- new: Dutch (thanks to Ferdi)

Version 1.5 - 26th of May 2017

Localizations (incomplete and made by Google. If you want to contribute, please download the Localization String File, correct it, and send new version to me).

Version 1.4 - 25th of May 2017

Compatibility update to fix an issue with macOS 10.12.5

Added new status: Mounts is operating: The re-mount of larger volumes can take a while. When mounts is
working you cannot accidentally issue another action anymore.

Version 1.3 - 29th of January 2017

Smaller tray icon

Fixed some possible memory leaks

Added modal alert when drive has spaces in names: I am using DADiskMountWithArguments API from Disk
Arbitration framework and
when there are spaces in volume name the remount action will fail with unknown error.
If you have an idea how to solve it, please let me know.

Version 1.2 - 9th of November 2015

Fixed a problem where volumes appears as not re-mountable by mistake intermittently.

Version 1.1 - 27th of July 2014

The Appstore Sandbox restrictions does not allow sandboxed apps to re-mount external volumes.
We have rejected Mounty from Mac Appstore for that reason and decided to distribute it for free, without
Sandbox capability.

Mounty uses Apple's Notification Center to issue notification whenever a NTFS volume to re-mount is
detected.
If you want to re-mount a volume from a notification please change the alert style to "Alert" for Mounty
from Notification Center Settings
in System Settings application.

DISCLAIMER

The Mounty NTFS Tool is provided "as is" without any warranty of any
kind, either expressed or implied, including,
but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose.
The entire risk
as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. In no event will the author of this
tool or any of its
partners be liable to you for any damages, including any general, special, incidental or
consequential damages arising
out of the use or inability to use this program (including but not limited to any loss of profit or
savings, loss of
data or a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if the author of this
tool or any of its
partners has been advised of the possibility of such damages.